Michael Shannon

I'm a big fella, and I got this giant head, and it's not too difficult for me to seem intimidating, I suppose.

But it couldn't be further from what I'm actually like.

Oh, it's my pleasure, Dave.

Thanks for having me.

Oh, gosh.

I don't know.

So much of what has happened in my career just seems like dumb luck, you know?

I don't know what got into these people's heads to look my way for these things, but I sure am grateful that they thought of me, you know?

I mean, I guess typically with a project like Nuremberg, I think when people hear that I'm in Nuremberg, they assume I'm playing a Nazi and

And when they hear about Death by Lightning, they assume I'm playing the assassin.

So I guess it's nice to surprise people.

Well, it started with Candice's book, Destiny of the Republic.

And for anybody who watches the program and gets a kick out of it, I highly suggest you read the book if you haven't already because it's very captivating.

And very informative and illuminating.

But I find that a lot of people really don't know much about this period.

It's kind of sandwiched between the Civil War and the World Wars and the Depression, you know, which are all, I guess, more inherently dramatic periods.

But...

I think this period is really worth studying and looking at because the country seemed very lost at sea, as Garfield hints at in his address at the Republican Convention.

And it's easy, I think, to feel that way now.

So if you're curious about how we might...